On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Chris Withers<ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> Why that ? if you want to use a software in a virtualenv, you have to >> (re)install it in there... > > Yeah, but the process of setting up a virtualenv installs setuptools and > makes it available to the virtualenv. > > Rather than installing setuptools, I'd like it to install distribute and use > that instead. >
Sure, maybe you could suggest that on the virtual env mailing list, but maybe Ian will want to wait for Distribute 0.7 (that's what I'd do but I am not 100% sure of the best strategy for that) > I don't want to install distribute over setuptools in the virtualenv and > wondering if that worked like it should... > It should work. Before I did the release, I have successfully tested installing in a venv, and provided a script for people to try on their side: http://nightly.ziade.org/install_test.py Beside, virtualenv or not, installing over setuptools and preventing setuptools to install itself over distribute is something I took care of by faking a setuptools installation when distribute is installed. Cheers Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
